On the whole, grandparents usually fare quite fare in stories. Think Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother or any one of the thousands of cosy nannas and granpas who populate Hallmark movies. They bake cookies, they beam with welcoming saint-like happiness, and they indulgently let their grandchildren do all the things Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: “Icons Unmasked” by Alex Solis playfully reveals the real identities of cartoon icons
Oh how I love someone who thinks creatively out of the box. In this case, it’s immensely clever artist Alex Solis who wondered what really lay behind the faces of some of animation’s most recognisable faces. His artistic musings resulted in Icons Unmasked, which pulls back the veneer to Continue Reading
Happy birthday *and* Merry Christmas Charlie Brown: USPS honours Peanuts with new stamps series
One very good thing about a lifetime spent with Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang is that you have a treasure house of special memories stored away. Without much effort, I can recall how I used to gather up pecan nuts from across the street in my primary school Continue Reading
Darth Vader and Frodo: Star Wars vs. Lord of the Rings fan-made teaser trailer
If you think Frodo had his hands full with Sauron and his black power-obsessed minions, then ponder how busy he, Aragorn, Legolas, Gandalf and assorted other Hobbits might have been if Darth Vader had decided to invade the fair lands of The Shire and its neighbours? Might have been Continue Reading